[Python-ideas] os.architecture

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2013, at 3:28, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> if os.architecture == 32:
>>  download('http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.1-win32-x86.zip')
>> else:
>>  download('http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.1-win32-x64.zip')
>
> Love it! A win32-x86 build is exactly what you want on 32-bit ARM9 linux, a win32-x64 build is perfect for ppc64 OS X. And if you're running a 32-bit python on 64-bit Windows you almost certainly want to download 64-bit libraries, right?

I am glad you've noticed this piece of code is for Windows. It is also
nice that you understand the difference between OS bitness and Python
bitness.

> I also love hard coding SDL 2.0.1 into your portable application, because there's no way they'll ever release a newer version without telling you in advance so you can forcibly update all your users, which makes their "latest" links useless.

You'll like it even more if I tell you there is also a hash and size
info hard coded.
https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/locally/src/8367fad824c111367b99baf443c5d38b525111a5/03.fetch-sdl2.py?at=default#cl-85